On Monday 16 April 2012 12:53:53 Roland McGrath wrote:
> I'm not going to review any of the ia64 content.  I'll just say that I
> think this should be done with multiple commits, each with proper ChangeLog
> bits.  First, just resurrect old files verbatim.  Then each of your bullet
> items is a separate commit with normal detailed entries in ChangeLog.ia64.

i couldn't tell if people would be ok merging code that is known to be broken.  
i could break up this commit into multiple ones (original code + mangling 
afterwards), but really none of it would be usable until all of it was merged.
-mike